Monthly Archives: February 2015

2015 LITA Forum

The 2015 LITA Forum Committee seeks proposals for excellent pre-conferences, concurrent sessions, and poster sessions for the 18th annual Forum of the Library Information and Technology Association, to be held in Minneapolis Minnesota, November. 12-15, 2015 at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis. This year will feature additional programming in collaboration with LLAMA, the Library Leadership & Management Association.

The Forum Committee welcomes creative program proposals related to all types of libraries: public, school, academic, government, special, and corporate.

Proposals could relate to any of the following topics:

• Cooperation & collaboration
• Scalability and sustainability of library services and tools
• Researcher information networks
• Practical applications of linked data
• Large- and small-scale resource sharing
• User experience & users
• Library spaces (virtual or physical)
• “Big Data” — work in discovery, preservation, or documentation
• Data driven libraries or related assessment projects
• Management of technology in libraries
• Anything else that relates to library information technology

Proposals may cover projects, plans, ideas, or recent discoveries. We accept proposals on any aspect of library and information technology, even if not covered by the above list. The committee particularly invites submissions from first time presenters, library school students, and individuals from diverse backgrounds. Submit your proposal through http://bit.ly/lita-2015-proposal by February 28, 2015.

Presentations must have a technological focus and pertain to libraries. Presentations that incorporate audience participation are encouraged. The format of the presentations may include single- or multi-speaker formats, panel discussions, moderated discussions, case studies and/or demonstrations of projects.

Vendors wishing to submit a proposal should partner with a library representative who is testing/using the product.

Presenters will submit draft presentation slides and/or handouts on ALA Connect in advance of the Forum and will submit final presentation slides or electronic content (video, audio, etc.) to be made available on the web site following the event. Presenters are expected to register and participate in the Forum as attendees; discounted registration will be offered.

Please submit your proposal through http://bit.ly/lita-2015-proposal

 

More information about LITA is available from the LITA websiteFacebook and Twitter.

Mark Beatty
Programs and Marketing Specialist
ALA/LITA
50 East Huron
Chicago, IL 60611
312.280.4268
mbeatty@ala.org
www.lita.org

Critical literacy for information professionals” (Facet Publishing)

This book, aimed at library professionals, students and researchers, will draw together contributors from across library and information sectors and regions to reflect on current critical literacy practices within the sector. It will explore how these are being implemented in various settings and the impact on information professionals and the communities they support.

A number of terms have been used to describe this approach, for example, New Literacies (Lankshear, 1997) or Critical Social Literacies (Walton, 1996) as well as critical literacy, but they share the fundamental notion that, in all media, texts are constructed and serve particular interests. The objective of critical literacy is not to discover and interpret the ‘correct’ information, but to challenge and question social and cultural assumptions. Thus, critical literacy involves a commitment to equity and social justice and supports the active involvement of educators (including librarians) in shaping the future of communities and societies.

Possible chapter topics include:

•       Critical literacy with different social groups e.g. English as an Additional Language (EAL) learners (or other non-native speakers), gender-specific groups, young children, learners with special educational needs

•       Critical literacy and new media (e.g. digital, visual, multiliteracies)

•       Critical literacy in different settings (e.g. public libraries, school libraries, higher and further education libraries, health information, workplaces, community settings, informal learning)

•       Critical literacy across different societies, communities and cultures

•       Fiction and critical literacy in the library

•       Libraries, critical literacy and community engagement and action

•       Using different models of critical literacy instruction eg critical literacy tool-kit (Morgan & Ramanathan, 2005), four resources model (Freebody & Luke, 1990)

•       Student/learner engagement and critical literacy

•       Critical literacy across the curriculum (e.g. working with science, arts, languages)

•       Practical methods of teaching critical literacy (e.g. juxtaposition of texts, producing counter-texts)

•       Potential conflicts between critical literacy and existing models of education and library and information provision.

If you are interested in submitting a chapter, please send a 200-300 word abstract to Sarah McNicol (s.mcnicol@mmu.ac.uk) by Friday 27th March 2015 together with a brief biographical statement. If you want to discuss your idea prior to submitting an abstract, please do contact me on the above email or telephone +44 161 247 5104.

I am keen to encourage new authors as well as established writers so if you have a strong idea for a chapter but limited experience of academic writing, please get in touch and we can discuss additional support or co-authorship options.

 

Concordia University Libraries’ 13th Annual Research Forum

Call for Proposals and Registration

13e Forum annuel de recherche des Bibliothèques de l’Université Concordia : appel à propositions et inscriptions

*Nos excuses pour toute duplication* *Apologies for any cross posting*

Le texte en français suit plus bas.

Registration is now open for Concordia University Libraries’ 13th Annual Research Forum, in the beautiful city of Montreal.  This year’s Research Forum will be held on Friday, April 10th, 2015, at the Loyola Jesuit Hall and Conference Centre.

Registration is free and includes a light breakfast and lunch.  To register please click here. Registration is open until April 2nd, 2015.

The Research Forum provides an opportunity for librarians, archivists, graduate students, teaching faculty, and information professionals to describe and promote their completed or in-progress research, practical case studies or projects. The Forum also provides a venue for researchers to seek suggestions for enhancing their research interests, to identify potential new partners for projects, to test the effectiveness of their undertakings, and to promote research in academic libraries.

This year’s keynote speaker is Andrew Piper, Associate Professor of German and European Literature, associate member of the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, and author of Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times.

Proposals are still being accepted for this year’s Research Forum.  To submit a proposal, please click here.

Proposals are invited for presentations and / or posters on research or a case study in any area of Library and Information Science including literacy instruction, social media, library history, citation analysis methods, scholarly publishing, services to users with disabilities, new library technologies, resource sharing, research data management, reference service models and innovations, library space and design.

Presentations and posters may be in English or French.

At least one of the presenters of the poster and/or presentation should be the primary researcher involved with the original project.

Presentations should be between 15 and 20 minutes, followed by a question period.

Posters may also be submitted. These will be on view for the entire day. Poster presenters will have an opportunity to describe their posters during the day.

Submission deadline is Monday, February 16, 2015, 5 p.m.

For more information, please visit: http://library.concordia.ca/about/staff/forum.php .

For more information about the Concordia University Libraries’ 13th Annual Research Forum please contact Éthel Gamache, Chair of the Research Forum Steering Committee at ethel.gamache@concordia.ca .

 

Katharine Hall

 

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13e Forum annuel de recherche des Bibliothèques de l’Université Concordia : appel à Inscriptions

 

Vous êtes invités à vous inscrire au 13e Forum annuel de recherche en bibliothéconomie et sciences de l’information des Bibliothèques de l’Université Concordia, à Montréal. Le Forum de recherche de cette année aura lieu le vendredi 10 avril 2015, au Centre des congrès des Jésuites de Loyola.

 

L’inscription est gratuite et inclut un léger déjeuner et dîner. Veuillez cliquer ici pour vous inscrire. La période d’inscription s’étend jusqu’au jeudi 2 avril 2015.

Le Forum de recherche donne l’occasion aux bibliothécaires, aux archivistes, aux étudiants des cycles supérieurs, aux professeurs des cégeps et des universités ainsi qu’aux praticiens des milieux documentaires de présenter leur projet de recherche ou un retour d’expérience, qu’ils soient en cours ou complétés. Le Forum est également un lieu pour les chercheurs qui souhaitent recevoir des suggestions et des commentaires sur leur projet de recherche, rencontrer de nouveaux partenaires, tester l’intérêt de leur approche ou promouvoir la recherche dans les bibliothèques universitaires.

 

Le conférencier invité cette année est Andrew Piper, professeur agrégé de littérature allemande et européenne, membre associé au Département d’Histoire de l’art et de Communications à l’Université McGill et auteur de Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times.

 

 

Les propositions de présentations et d’affiches sont toujours acceptées pour le Forum de recherche de cette année. Pour soumettre, cliquez ici.

 

Vous êtes invités à proposer des communications et des affiches sur des sujets de recherche ou des retours d’expérience de les domaines de la bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information, y compris le développement des compétences informationnelles, les médias sociaux, l’histoire des bibliothèques, la bibliométrie, l’édition savante, les services aux utilisateurs handicapés, les technologies de la bibliothèque, le partage des ressources, la gestion des données de recherche, les modèles de services de référence et les innovations en matière de conception d’espaces de bibliothèque.

 

Les communications et les affiches peuvent être présentées en anglais ou en français.

 

Les communications doivent porter sur des résultats de recherche ou de retour d’expérience originaux. Au moins un des auteurs d’une communication ou d’une affiche doit être impliqué dans la recherche présentée.

 

Chaque communication doit durer entre 15 et 20 minutes et est suivie d’une période de questions.

Vous êtes également invités à proposer des affiches. Celles-ci seront accessibles tout au long de la journée, et les auteurs des affiches auront la possibilité de les présenter.

 

La date limite pour les soumissions est le lundi 16 février 2015, 17h.

 

Pour plus d’informations : http://library.concordia.ca/about/staff/forum-fr.php

Pour plus d’informations sur 13e Forum annuel de recherche des Bibliothèques de l’Université Concordia, veuillez communiquer avec Éthel Gamache, présidente du comité organisateur du Forum de recherche (ethel.gamache@concordia.ca).

 

Emory University Libraries & Information Technology Division Librarian Fellows Program

Emory University Libraries & Information Technology Division announces the Librarian Fellows Program for 2015. We invite applications from graduates with master’s degrees in information studies or library/information science awarded between May 2014 and June 2015. Fellows will be appointed to two-year term positions with start dates that may occur between summer and early fall 2015.

Emory University is one of the top-twenty national universities in the U.S.
News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges.” Additionally, Emory is thirteenth in the country for best values among private universities in the
2010 Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine. The university is recognized internationally for its outstanding liberal arts college, superb professional schools and one of the Southeast’s leading health care systems. Emory and its environment is a rich setting in which to launch your career.

Fellows in this program are able to develop expertise, leadership and project management skills in placements related to the libraries’ three strategic goal areas:
• Digital Innovations – in services, resources and scholarship; • Special Collections – featuring services and resources for research and teaching in modern literature, African American history and culture, southern history and culture; and • Customer-centered Library – creating distinctive research environments that integrate print and digital resources and enable connections among users, communities, resources, and tools.

The Fellows Program will be the first professional position for a new graduate.
The framework for the Fellow for this term will be to work as a member of a primary work team and will also have opportunities to work on special projects and initiatives in areas related to the primary area. A range of special projects and initiatives are underway and will provide the Fellows with opportunities to learn about and contribute to new developments in research library services.  The work assignments for the 2015-2017 Fellow will be focused on a new comprehensive digital library program.

The Library is deploying the Hydra repository solution as part of a larger, evolving digital library program.  Under the guidance/supervision of the Manager, Library Core Services and the Director of the Content Division, the fellow will analyze current business practices, perform peer benchmarking, and recommend repository policies and practices for acquiring, describing, publishing, and preserving content.  The fellow will work with a team of repository stakeholders from many areas of the Libraries and IT Services (LITS), including library systems, software development, metadata specialists, digitization, special collections, digital scholarship, and scholarly communications.

Qualifications:  In addition to a master’s degree in information studies or library/information science awarded between May 2014 and June 2015, we seek candidates who: demonstrate an understanding of and interest in the mission of academic libraries; articulate special interest in and foundation for gaining expertise in the primary work assignment; demonstrate evidence of self-directed learning and adaptability; show commitment to professional growth; demonstrate entrepreneurial and risk taking aptitude; are adept in use of technologies; have strong analytical skills; are adept at working in teams and independently; communicate effectively (verbal, written and graphical) and have excellent interpersonal skills; and show potential for leadership. Applicants must be eligible to work immediately in the U.S. for a two-year period.  Experience in data management, digital libraries and/or preservation preferred.

Salary and Benefits: $50,000 (minimum) and comprehensive benefits package including 24 days vacation and ample sick leave benefit. See also http://www.hr.emory.edu/eu/benefits/index.html. Relocation allowance provided.
Funding for professional development provided.

Application:   Please send your application to Linda Nodine via email
(eul-libjobs@emory.edu) or apply via
https://sjobs.brassring.com/1033/ASP/TG/cim_jobdetail.asp?partnerid=25066&siteid=5449&areq=49890br

Applications may be submitted as Word or PDF attachments and must include the
following:
1) Letter of application describing your interest in a primary work assignment;
2) Current resume; and
3) Names, email addresses, and telephone numbers of 3 references including a
current or previous supervisor.

Please enter “Research Library Fellow Program” in the subject line of the
email.        In your letter, please specify your interest in one of the primary work
assignments and articulate your special interest in and foundation for gaining
expertise in the area.        Candidates applying by February 15 will receive
priority consideration.  Interviews will begin during February/March and continue until the position is successfully filled.

Institution:  Ranked as one of the Top 20 universities nationally by U.S. News & World Report in 2012, Emory University is internationally recognized for its outstanding liberal arts college, superb professional schools, and one of the South’s leading health care systems. Emory’s beautiful, leafy main campus is located in Atlanta’s historic Druid Hills suburb and is home to 7,656 undergraduates and 6,580 graduate and professional students. As the third largest private employer in Atlanta, Emory University and Emory Healthcare have a combined workforce of approximately, 27,747 and an annual operating budget of $4 billion. Emory University received $520.3 million in research funding in 2012. Emory recently concluded a successful fundraising campaign that raised $1.69 billion from
149,000 donors.

Ranked among the top 25 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in North America, Emory University Libraries in Atlanta and Oxford, Georgia are an intellectual commons for Emory University. Comprised of 9 libraries, the holdings include more than 3.9 million print and electronic volumes, 83,000-plus electronic journals, and internationally renowned special collections. Emory is well known in a number of collection areas including modern literature, African-American history and culture, U.S. Southern history and culture, and U.S. civil rights. Emory Libraries staff number approximately
137 and the overall library budget is approximately $25.3 million. The Emory Libraries is a member of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), and the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) as well as regional associations including the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL), Georgia Library Learning Online (GALILEO), and the GETSM Consortium (a consortium of the University of Georgia, Emory, Georgia Tech, Georgia State University, and Georgia Regents University).

The Emory Libraries include the Robert W. Woodruff Library, which is also home to the Manuscript, Archives & Rare Book Library (MARBL) and the Goizueta Business Library, and the Woodruff Health Sciences Library. Other campus libraries, which serve the specialized and professional schools, include the Pitts Theology Library and the Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library in addition to the Oxford College Library located on the Oxford Campus approximately 30 miles from Atlanta.

Emory  University  is  an  Equal  Opportunity/Affirmative  Action  Employer
and  encourages  women        and  minority  candidates.

The 14th annual Northwest Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing Conference

The 14th annual Northwest Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing Conference will take place September 10-11, 2015, in Portland Oregon at Portland Community College – Sylvania Campus! Look for registration opening early in May.

Librarian in Black<http://www.librarianinblack.net/> Sarah Houghton will be this year’s keynote speaker.

Call for Proposals
The NWILL Conference Program Committee invites proposals for lightning rounds (7 minutes) and regular sessions (45 minutes) of interest to interlibrary loan and resource sharing practitioners.

The following topics are of interest to the Program Committee, but we welcome proposals on other topics as well:

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Managing your ILL statistics
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Sustainable ILL & green practices
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Coping with fewer resources
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ILL for public libraries
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Succession planning
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Libraries without books, what does it mean for ILL?
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Keeping track of licensing of e-content for ILL
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Training staff and students
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Copyright and licensing

Check the conference site<http://www.nwill.org/> for more information and to submit a proposal<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/13scCpg-ECuLAO69Sqx6VLFhbig8sgcQ0lL3H5QXbGvc/viewform>. Deadline: March 16, 2015

Departures in Critical Qualitative Research: Special Issue on Black Feminist Thought

Special Issue Call on Black Feminist Thought for Departures in Critical Qualitative Research

Cultivating Promise and Possibility: Black Feminist Thought as an Innovative, Interdisciplinary, and International Framework

Guest Editor: Rachel Alicia Griffin, PhD, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Created by Patricia Hill Collins over 20 years ago, Black Feminist Thought (BFT) has flourished in multiple disciplines including sociology, English, political science, psychology, education, law, history, philosophy, Africana studies, mass communication, and communication studies. Since its inception, BFT has served as a key means to unapologetically center the embodied knowledge of Black women and foster opportunities for Black women to “talk back” to systemic oppression(s). To honor the legacy of BFT and propel its theoretical and methodological significance into the future, this special issue will feature critical, qualitative, and performative works that productively utilize, challenge, and extend BFT.

Essays in this special issue will be characterized by:

1.  Innovative approaches to critical, qualitative research (e.g., theoretically, methodologically, representationally, aesthetically, etc.).

1.  Rich, nuanced, and complex insights into and/or applications of BFT.

1.  Provocative uses of critical and qualitative methods to challenge and extend BFT.

Exemplars of how BFT can be industriously challenged and extended include works that:

* Address the rich contributions of Black girls/adolescents/women to society opposed to a singular focus on what is done to Black girls/adolescents/women by society.

* Focus on Black girlhood and/or adolescence given that the majority of BFT scholarship focuses on Black womanhood.

* Center Black femininity as a positionality that reflects raced and gendered marginalization and privilege (i.e., Black females can be marginalized by race and gender and simultaneously privileged by nationality, sexuality, ability, religion, etc.).

* Deconstruct the reproduction of privileged ideologies and discourses (e.g., classism, homophobia, ableism, Christian hegemony, etc.) in the marginalized context of Black womanhood.

* Critique BFT’s cisgender normativity (e.g., rarely are Black trans and/or Black gender queer women centered, included, addressed, etc.).

* Politically mark BFT as US American BFT (i.e., how might we deeply respect the canon of US American BFT while being accountable to how US American and Western ethnocentrism often render Black women from beyond Western societies invisible and silent?).

* Draw upon African feminisms, Black internationalist feminism, third world feminisms, and/or postcolonial feminisms to theorize Black femininity in global, transnational, and/or diasporic contexts.

* Explore considerably under-theorized intersections of Black femininity such as race, gender, and age; race, gender, religion, and nationality; race, gender, and ability; etc.

* Explore considerably under-theorized topics in the realm of BFT including but not limited to: conservative and/or Republican Black female rhetoric; new media and digital technology; progressive alliances within the Black community; parenthood and parenting; coalitional praxis between Black women and other collectives of women of color; linkages between BFT, womanism, Chicana feminisms, Arab feminisms, African feminisms, etc.; “post-” identity politics; ideological and discursive emphasis on Black masculinity at the expense of Black femininity; sexist, patriarchal, and misogynistic erasure of Black females espoused by Black males; etc.

Faculty and graduate students are welcome to submit manuscripts. The deadline for submissions is Friday July 3, 2015. All authors should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed. (2010), identify their essay as a “BFT Special Issue Submission,” and submit manuscripts electronically via ScholarOne: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ucpress-departures

Manuscripts should be prepared in MS Word (a PC-compatible version) using 12-point Times New Roman font, should be double-spaced, and should not exceed 9,000 words including notes. Manuscript title pages should be submitted as a separate file and include: (1) the title of the essay, (2) any acknowledgments, including the history of the manuscript if any part of it has been presented at a conference or included as part of a thesis or dissertation, and (3) author bio(s) of not more than 100 words each. Manuscripts should include: (1) the title of the essay, (2) an abstract of not more than 100 words, (3) a list of five suggested keywords, and (4) an accurate word count (including notes). Images, figures, and other ancillary materials should be submitted as separate files and conform to the Departures instructions for file size and format (see below).

Authors of accepted manuscripts will be responsible for clearing the necessary reproduction rights for any images, photos, figures, music, or content credited to a third party (including content found on the Internet), that fall outside of the fair use provisions described in US copyright law. Authors of accepted manuscripts will be asked to provide separate image and grayscale TIF files at a minimum resolution of 300 dpi, line art should be submitted as Illustrator EPS files at a resolution of 600 to 1200 dpi and in bitmap mode. Please do not embed images or grayscale or line art in Word files.
Essays will be reviewed by a Special Issue Editorial Board and should not be under review by any other publication venue. To inquire about this special issue, please contact:

Rachel Alicia Griffin, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Communication Studies
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies-cross-appointed
Africana Studies-cross-appointed
Southern Illinois University
Communications Building 2205
1100 Lincoln Drive, Mailcode 6605
Carbondale, IL 62901
rachelag@siu.edu<mailto:rachelag@siu.edu>

The Bottom Line: Managing Library Finances

Call for articles

The Bottom Line:  Managing Library Finances (TBL) is actively seeking submissions on all topics related to finances, budgeting, and fundraising in libraries.  TBL is an editor-reviewed journal.

An established print and online journal, The Bottom Line’s major focus is on library finances, library development activities, dealing with library budgets and personnel, and changes in libraries due to economic challenges.  The journal is especially interested in articles on the topics below from archives, museums, and other information organizations as well.

Published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited, the journal is interested in articles of varying lengths, opinion pieces and case studies.  The editor will work with authors that are new to LIS publishing, and those who are seeking outlets for reporting on practical uses of budgets and finances in libraries.

Submissions particularly welcome in the following areas (for example):

•       Library changes and challenges from recent economic turmoil
•       Case studies on library budgeting and finances
•       Case studies on library development activities
•       Downsizing and reorganization of libraries
•       Library budgets and finances from an administrator’s perspective (high-level or middle management)
•       Library budgets and finances from a staff perspective
•       Innovative ways to raise money and awareness of library activities and mission
•       Thought-provoking opinions related to library budgets and finances

Go to www.emeraldinsight.com/bl.htm to see past tables of contents and sample articles.

I look forward to hearing from you

Regards

Dr Brad Eden, Editor
Dean of Library Services
Valparaiso University
brad.eden@valpo.edu

13th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management

CALL FOR PAPERS

Lodz, Poland, September 13-16, 2015

WWW: http://fedcsis.org/aitm
E-mail: aitm2015@fedcsis.org

We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper
to AITM 2015 – held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer
Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2015).

FedCSIS is an annual international multi-conference organized by the
Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation
with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Poland Section
Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society
Chapter, IEEE-CIS Poland Section Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on
Applied Computing, ACM Lodz Chapter, European Alliance for Innovation,
Committee of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish
Operational and Systems Research Society, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland,
and Mazovia Cluster ICT.

The main purpose of AITM is to provide a forum for researchers and
practitioners to present and discuss the current issues of IT in
business applications. There will be also the opportunity to demonstrate
by the software houses and firms their solutions as well as achievements
in management information systems.

TOPICS
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The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

– Concepts and methods of business informatics
– Business Process Management and Management Systems (BPM and BPMS)
– Management Information Systems (MIS)
– Enterprise information systems (ERP, CRM, SCM, etc.)
– Business Intelligence methods and tools
– Strategies and methodologies of IT implementation
– IT projects & IT projects management
– IT governance, efficiency and effectiveness
– Decision Support Systems and data mining
– Intelligence and mobile IT
– Cloud computing, SOA, Web services
– Agent-based systems
– Business-oriented ontologies, topic maps
– Knowledge-based and intelligent systems in management

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Papers should be submitted by April 24, 2015. Preprints will be
published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants.
Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the
IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore,
proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN and ISSN numbers will
posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events’ organizers
arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected
extended and revised papers for post-conference publications
(information can be found at the websites of individual events).

IMPORTANT DATES
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– Paper submission: April 24, 2015
– Position paper submission: June 1, 2015
– Acceptance decision: June 15, 2015
– Final version of paper submission: July 1, 2015
– Final deadline for discounted fee: July 1, 2015
– Conference dates: September 13-16, 2015

EVENT CHAIRS
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– Dudycz, Helena, Wrocław University of Economics, Poland
– Dyczkowski, Mirosław, Wrocław University of Economics, Poland
– Korczak, Jerzy, Wrocław University of Economics, Poland

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far)
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– Abramowicz, Witold, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
– Ahlemann, Frederik, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
– Andres, Frederic, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
– Brown, Kenneth, Communigram SA, France
– Chmielarz, Witold, University of Warsaw, Poland
– Cortesi, Agostino, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, Italy
– Czarnacka-Chrobot, Beata, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
– De, Suparna, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
– Dufourd, Jean-François, University of Strasbourg, France
– Franczyk, Bogdan, University of Leipzig, Germany
– Kannan, Rajkumar, Bishop Heber College (Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli,
India
– Kersten, Grzegorz, Concordia University, Montreal, Poland
– Kowalczyk, Ryszard, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne,
Victoria, Australia
– Ligęza, Antoni, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
– Ludwig, André, University of Leipzig, Germany
– Magoni, Damien, University of Bordeaux – LaBRI, France
– Michalak, Krzysztof, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland
– Pankowska, Malgorzata, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland
– Stanek, Stanislaw, General Tadeusz Kosciuszko Military Academy of Land
Forces in Wroclaw, Poland
– Teufel, Stephanie, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
– Tsang, Edward, University of Essex, United Kingdom
– Zanni-Merk, Cecilia, Universite de Strasbourg, France
– Ziemba, Ewa, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland

CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES

Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki

CONTACT FedCSIS AT: secretariat@fedcsis.org

FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook
FedCSIS on LinkedIN: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN

Handbook of Research on Human-Computer Interfaces, Developments, and Applications

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

Proposal Submission Deadline: March 15, 2015

A book edited by

João Rodrigues, (LARSyS, CIAC and ISE, University of the Algarve, Portugal)

Pedro Cardoso, (LARSyS and ISE, University of the Algarve, Portugal)

Jânio Monteiro, (INESC-ID (Lisbon) and ISE, University of the Algarve, Portugal)

Mauro Figueiredo, (CIMA, CIAC and ISE, University of the Algarve, Portugal)

 

To be published by IGI Global: http://bit.ly/1C7rZmh

 

For release in the Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology (AHSAT) Book Series

Series Editor(s): Ashish Dwivedi (The University of Hull, UK)

 

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The Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology (AHSAT) Book Series seeks to explore the ways in which society and human beings have been affected by technology and how the technological revolution has changed the way we conduct our lives as well as our behavior. The AHSAT book series aims to publish the most cutting-edge research on human behavior and interaction with technology and the ways in which the digital age is changing society.

 

Introduction

It is quite easy to find definitions of Human Computer Interaction (HCI). The most known is probably the one in Wikipedia: “Human–computer interaction involves the study, planning, design and uses of the interaction between people (users) and computers. It is often regarded as the intersection of computer science, behavioral sciences, design, media studies, and several other fields of study”.

Given the above definition, it is quite easy to recognize that the boundaries of HCI are quite fuzzy. Historically, in a non-exhaustive overview, HCI evolved from a set of switches, to punched cards, keyboards, mouse pointers, etc., to new platforms and the most recent devices. Things are changing fast. The dialogs in the Stanley Kubrick (1968) “2001: A Space Odyssey” movie between the computer HAL 9000 and humans or the library host hologram in the Simon Wells (2002) “Time Machine” movie where the hologram communicates and interacts naturally with a time traveler, were once science fiction, but not anymore.

Currently most computers and mobile devices have the computational capacity and are equipped to mimic human’s capacities like sight and hearing, and even, with the appropriate sensors, taste, smell, touch, balance and measure acceleration, temperature, etc. Some of these capabilities touch and gesture can be used to control machines in a natural and intuitive way. Nowadays there are an huge amount of sensors that can be used with that purpose, such as embedded cameras existing in any of our devices, touch screens, mobile 3D sensors such as Structure Sensor, the Leap Motion, to the well known and used Kinetic sensor from Microsoft.

The truth is that, as J. Jack from Microsoft states, HCI is a moving target. We expect the future of HCI to be supported on ubiquitous communication where computers communicate to give universal access to data and computational services, high functional systems where accessing those functionalities is natural, mass availability of computer graphics, high-bandwidth interaction, wide variety of displays (e.g., on common surfaces, with flexibility, large and thin), and embedded computation.

Bearing the previous context in mind, this book aims to present new insights to HCI, bringing in the same publication, different and new contexts that were not yet presented in a single book. The book will focus on research, applications and interactions that are related with two of the five human senses: “sight” and “touch”, neglecting the other three, “hearing”, “taste” and “smell”.

The book will focus on Human-Computer Interaction, state of the art applications, research and trends, having in mind three major sub-areas: (a) Gesture interaction (special attention will be given to gesture and poses interfaces using 3D sensors). (b) Augmented reality (with special attention to applications in education) and (c) Assistive technologies (with special attention to technologies related to navigation, Internet-of-things and wellness).

Many of those sub-areas are crosswise, as well as the research and applications are being developed for recreation and for professional uses which will be spread between the different chapters, showing as expected, that HCI is nowadays and in the future, one of the major subjects of study in all areas where humans are involved (bottom line: everywhere!). The book will pretended to show applications and research more focused in “professional” uses, such as, rehabilitation, and care systems, education, smart grids, fleets routes optimizations, and applications more dedicated to “fun” uses, like for instance, applications using holography, film/movie interaction, gamming or events localizations. All these are very different fields of research, but at the same time very similar, due to the necessity for humans to interact.

 

Objective of the Book

The objective of this book is to bring together a comprehensive collection of research trends on Human-Computer Interaction from a set of international experts on research, design, evaluation, implementation and use of innovative technologies on the field. The main contribution of the book will be integration and crosswise in a single book areas and related sub-areas of three main topics: gesture interaction, augmented reality and assistive technologies.

 

Target Audience

Policy makers, academicians, researchers, advanced-level students, technology developers, that are interested in the new trends in HCI. The book focus several different research and applications, from gestures and user poses, to augmented reality solutions, mobile devices and educational applications. Research and applications dedicate to different ways/types of assistive technologies and applications where the Internet-of-things is the interconnection of uniquely identifiable embedded computing devices, will also be present. All these, is centered in the main subject of Human-Computer Interaction. All actors in this huge area will find this text useful in furthering their research exposure to pertinent topics in HCI and assisting in furthering their own research efforts in this field.

 

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Contributors are welcome to submit chapters on the following topics relating to Gesture and Pose Interaction, Augmented Reality and Assistive Technologies:

  • Design for quality of life technologies
  • Gesture, eye–gaze and pose based interaction
  • Computer and human vision
  • 3D interaction
  • Art with new technology
  • Gaming
  • Mobile technology
  • Adaptive and augmented interaction
  • Augmented and Mixed Reality, applications, issues in development, underlying & supporting technologies
  • Accessibility of smart environments
  • Design for all education and training
  • Technology enhanced learning
  • Special education, inclusion in education, distance learning and assistive learning
  • Assistive environments
  • Aging technologies
  • Navigation, and optimization of routes
  • Internet of things accessibility
  • Smart homes
  • Smart Grids and Smart Appliances
  • Healthcare and safety
  • Multimodal interfaces
  • Adaptive and personalized interfaces
  • Automation and robotics interaction
  • Alternative I/O techniques and technologies for “sight” and “touch

 

Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before March 15, 2015, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by March 31, 2015 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by July 30, 2015. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, Handbook of Research on Human-Computer Interfaces, Developments, and Applications. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process.

 

Full chapters may be submitted to this book here: Submit a chapter

 

All proposals should be submitted through the link at the bottom of this page.

 

Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), an international academic publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. IGI Global specializes in publishing reference books, scholarly journals, and electronic databases featuring academic research on a variety of innovative topic areas including, but not limited to, education, social science, medicine and healthcare, business and management, information science and technology, engineering, public administration, library and information science, media and communication studies, and environmental science. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2016.

 

Important Dates

March 15, 2015: Proposal Submission Deadline

May 15 , 2015: Notification of Acceptance

July 30, 2015: Full Chapter Submission

September 30, 2015: Review Results Returned

October 30, 2015: Final Chapter Submission

 

Inquiries can be forwarded to

Profs. João Rodrigues, Pedro Cardoso, Jânio Monteiro, and Mauro Figueiredo

University of the Algarve, ISE, Campus da Penha, 8005-139, Faro Portugal

Tel.: (+351) 289800100

E-mail: jrodrig@ualg.pt; pcardoso@ualg.pt; jmmontei@ualg.pt; mfiguei@ualg.pt

 

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Women & Gender Studies Section ACRL 8th annual Research Poster Sessions

The Women & Gender Studies Section will hold its 8th annual Research Poster Session during our General Membership Meeting at the ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco on Saturday, June 27, 2015, from 4:30-5:30 p.m. The forum seeks to provide an opportunity to present newly completed research or work in progress. Both beginning and established researchers are welcome to apply. Participants may receive collaborative feedback and recommendations for future publishing and/or new initiatives.

The potential scope of the topics includes, but is not limited to, teaching methods, instruction, information technology, collection development, interdisciplinarity, and collaboration with academic faculty.* For research ideas, see the updated Research Agenda for Women and Gender Studies Librarianship

The committee is especially interested in receiving submissions which highlight the ways in which librarians work with faculty and/or establish faculty partnerships. However, as stated above, submissions are NOT limited to this particular theme

Applicants chosen to present their work at the poster session are expected to supply presentation materials, including poster boards. Tables for presentation materials will be provided.  Attendees at the forum will find an arena for discussion and networking with their colleagues interested in related issues and trends in the profession.

The committee will use a blind peer review process. 

Selection criteria:

1. Significance of the topic. Priority will be given to Women and Gender Studies Section members and/or women and gender studies topics

2. Originality of the project

Proposal submission instructions:

1. Proposals should include:  

          Title of the proposal

          Proposal narrative (no more than 2 pages, double spaced) 

          Name of applicant(s) 

          Affiliation (s) 

          Applicant Email address(es), Phone number(s)  

          Are you a member of the Women & Gender Studies     Section? 

If you would like to become a member, go to: http://www.libr.org/wgss/join.html

2. NOTE: Submission deadline: March 31, 2014

3. Proposals should be emailed to: Diane Fulkerson, Chair, WGSS  (dfulkerson@sar.usf.edu ) or Stacy Russo, Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect at ( russo_stacy@sac.edu)

4. The chair will notify the applicants by April 30, 2014

If you are aware of other groups who would be interested in knowing about this call, please forward this message as appropriate. Thanks!

Diane Fulkerson
Chair WGSS